Sports station backs Kobe
Underscoring how much local sports talk radio is rallying behind Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant in the face of allegations he sexually assaulted a young woman, XTRA-AM (690) has started calling itself on the air “The unofficial station of Kobe Bryant -- we got your back.”
“It’s probably a little over the top,” said program director Don Martin, but “he’s one of us. To me, sports fans are a different breed, and everything we do is about loyalty.”
Bryant was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of felony sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman June 30 in a hotel room near Vail, Colo.
-- Steve Carney
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